Sentence examples for bit of a calm from inspiring English sources

Sat 7.30pm, Columbus Crew Stadium Ian Fraser, Crew Union, Columbus Crew: A bye week created a bit of a calm around Columbus.

"It's just a little bit of a calming down after the panic attack Friday," said Karl Haeling of LBBW.

Two wins would have had a bit of a calming effect.

Since mother cats pick up kittens by the scruff of their neck, this grip has a bit of a calming effect on the animal as well.

The illustrations are a rush of sketch and shape and texture, not unlike the work of Oliver Jeffers, although my favorite bit is a calm drawing of a game of hide-and-seek, with not a single child visible.

I'm dying for the show to take a bit of a breath and calm itself down a little.

TAMPA, Fla .— Five months to the day since he lay helpless on the infield dirt with a broken ankle, Derek Jeter returned to his position at shortstop, lending a bit of calm to a team troubled by bad injury news.

"There is a second world war kind of thing going on about 'keeping the home fires burning' at the moment; a bit of 'keep calm and carry on' art, if you like," said the Turner prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller this weekend as he prepared for the opening of his retrospective show, Joy in People, on London's South Bank next month.

But a bit of calm and wisdom could go a long way, as could a more nuanced understanding among Chinese nationalists of the outside world that so frequently angers them.

"I lost a little bit of my calm," Nadal said.

"From a larger perspective, at least for a moment, a bit of calm has entered the markets".